The Mamiya C330 - Medium Format TLR film camera - Unboxing / Overview / Photos
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- Another guilty lockdown purchase from eBay? The Mamiya C330 TLR medium format film camera has finally arrived!
It's been many years since I last used one, but I'm keen to get hands-on with it once again. In this video I will unbox the camera, before running through the features and functions. This is by no means a review of the camera, but I will be sharing some sample photos at the end.
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Bobby X
I just picked up a C3 with the 80mm F/2.8 and also 135mm F/4.5. It's in wonderful condition and I managed to get it for £150 shipped from an auction house. You always take a gamble bidding unseen but the pictures and description were accurate. Whilst I already shoot 6x6 with my Agfa Isolette II I have always wanted to add a TLR and the Mamiya's are such great value. First roll going in tomorrow.
I enjoyed your style of presentation and thought your overview very worthwhile. The pictures were really nice, especially the portraits. Looks like you got a new subscriber.
wow where did you get that deal? which platform?
@@mauhimauhi2063 Bought it from an auction house in the UK, bidding through Easylive. There's always a risk and you don't get to return it.
I bought the C330f a couple of months ago. Takes some getting used to but a superb piece of kit.
Yes its one of those cameras that really throws you off but once you develop the muscle memory it's such a joy to use and I think it creates a special experience you don't get with a lot of systems
Great Camera and Great Review. I havea C-330like yours and also a C-330 S. They are great cameras!
hey, Bobby, at 4:40 this is NOT only what the knob is for, like a Rollieflex the bottom lens takes the picture, but !! as there is NO magasine as in Mamiya RZ/RB 67/645\F; or Rollei Sl2000F/SL3000F cameras, a DARKSLIDE is put on the front of the film plane, so the lens change can occur SAFETLY, ie NO exposing of a frame!! ( as there is NO mirror /baffle to shield the film, like on MOST slr cameras).
I bought one two weeks ago Mamiya C330F
I love it,especially waist level finder
Yes it's a totally different way of shooting but once you get used to the inversion I think it's a joy to use, which lens did you get?
@@bobbygoulding2124 80mm F2,8 blue dot
I just bought a c330S, really love it
Hell yeah!! Its such a great camera, what have you been shooting?
@@bobbygoulding2124 Still learning how to use it (my usual camera is a 35mm rangefinder), but it seems to be very well made and packed with features. I also really like that the lenses are interchangeable. I have a 80mm, but plan get some others eventually. Looking forward to more of your videos! Regards Shawn
Thank you!!! Finally someone showing some pics with something other than the 80 lens. I used the 135 for most of my portraits and an 180 sometimes (I liked the look of the 180 more but was more specialized and hated changing lenses on a shoot).
Glad it was useful! I know, it is not easy to find much information on C330 / C220 the lenses. I am looking to order a 180 soon, and perhaps the 55 too. What did you use the 180mm for?
@@bobbygoulding2124 I used the 180 for primarily tighter head shots. I had a nice black one but sold it and later bought a decent chrome one for cheap which worked just fine. I wasn't looking for the most sharp one as a little softness would be ok in a portrait. I had a 250 at one time but sold it as it was just too cumbersome. You might consider a 55 instead of the 180 if you want to do some landscape work.
@@keithwiebe1787 Ok great to know, I guess the earlier chrome versions were made with more basic coatings too? Perhaps less contrast? Yes the 55 I am looking at for landscapes
@@bobbygoulding2124 I suppose they were made with less coatings but I didn't shoot into the sun and often used a homemade hood setup that actually vignetted a little for a lot of my shots. For most closeup shots in the studio would use a Nikon soft focus 1 filter.
@@keithwiebe1787 I am partial to a soft focus filter! Do you still have / shoot with the camera?
Great video. I recently purchased an older Mamiyaflex C2 the second camera in the line and I am loving it. Having shot with TLRs before that was not a big problem but what is taking some getting used to is the really short throw for focusing.
Great content, I need to get shopping on eBay 👀👍🏼
Thanks Suresh! Get right to it man, I think I am addicted!
Great video!!!!
Thank you! I am a big fan of your channel
Gorgeous indeed, now I’m on the fence between getting c330 or rb67.
Yeah it sure is! I mean the RB gives you more options in terms of format, both have their places. What are you mainly looking to use it for?
@@bobbygoulding2124 I'm looking for a medium format camera purely for portrait shoot, not really a landscape guy lol.
@@punnawitt.933 Fair enough. The RB would offer you interchangeable backs which I am always a fan of, just so you are not tied to one film, but can switch during a shoot. Have you looked at the Mamiya 645 Pro too? That's pretty much my favourite camera. I love the RB & RZ but never bought one myself, purely for weight reasons.
I have a C220. If you are going to shoot portraits I would go for a RB. I'm looking to pickup a RB/RZ. The C220 is beautiful and you will not be disappointed with quality of the lenses. Reasons I am looking at the RB/RZ: 1) 6x6 is not the best format for every shot 2) parallax when you focus in really close makes it hard to know what is going to show up in your shot and I forget to compensate in the viewfinder, film is expensive and I much rather have a SLR when I shoot portraits 3) When you crop 6x6 down to 645 you realize how much that extra space gives you, I rather go up in film size than down (though 645 is beautiful and I may want a smaller camera down the road and the RB/RZ system has backs for 645,6x6,6x7,6x8).
This is the 6x6 beast like the Pentax 67 in its own format. Looking forward to seeing you put it to the test !
I totally agree, It even shares the same hefty weight. Although I do wish it had the shutter sound of the Pentax! I will be putting something up in future with more from the C330, just as soon as I can get back outdoors properly :)
Yes boiiiiii 🔥🔥🔥
Cheers dude!! My GW690iii arrived the other week too, I'm smitten!
Bobby Goulding Just fb messaged you! X
There is no need to use the word "profesional". The word has heavily devalued.
"A professional photographer having one shoot per week is using his profesional
camera with a professional B&W film in it, which will be push developed by the
professional laboratory. There are not professional cameras; it is all marketing.
The Mamiya C2, C3, C22, C33, C220, C330 etc. have alwayas been sold with the
standard waist level finder.
In the Mamiya C330 will also fit 220 film and sheet film.
The crank which advances the film is cocking the shutter at the same time.
If multi exposure is needed, the crank only cocks the shutter.
The bellow is not just for close up photography; the bellow is also needed for
the focusing of the long focal Sekor lenses.
At the left side of the body is the cold shoe to mount a flash and different extras.
At the bottom of the C330 is a hole with a 3/8 Ww thread with in it the 1/4 Ww
adapter. Probably 99% of the 1/4 > 3/8 adapters are broken. The adapter is the'
Achilles heel of the tripod.
The seven Mamiya Sekor C lenses comparing to 24 x 36 lenses:
55 mm > 31 mm
65 mm > 36 mm
80 mm > 45 mm
105 mm > 58 mm
135 mm > 74 mm
180 mm > 99 mm
250 mm > 136 mm
Jaco van Lith, Rotterdam - The Netherlands
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Put the camera on a tripod and then make the video again, keeping your face out of the picture because we can hear you without seeing you.
Huge and heavy for the classic TLR, but a serious piece of equipment. Studio and landscapes - great; sports - not so much. The lenses made for the early models are not so good, but when the camera caught on with pros, Mamiya overhauled the lens line and much improved their quality. What is really loaughable is that a lot of folks pay nearly as much for the Yashicamat TLR, which by comparison is a tinny piece of junk with a Coke-bottle l;ens.
Mr. Redall Stewart is your opinion correct? Can you prove you are saying? Some American photographers made great photos with the Mamiya C33 in the Sixties. And so did I.
For plenty of sports this camera will suit very well. Will a Hasselblad 500 C/M be a better camera? It is always a matter of skills.
The Mamiya TLR 6x6 system with interchangable lenses, interchangable viewers, interchangable screens and interchangable backs for rollfilms and sheetfilm can never be intended for the happy snapshooter on a sunday afternoon in the park.
There is nothing wrong with the Yashicamat 124 or the Minolta Autocord. You might publish your opinion on the LUBITEL, NOCOFLEX, MPP, FLEXARET, and SEMFLEX; inclusive 50 x 50 cm prints on graded glossy double weight bromide paper made in Germany or by Forte in Hungary. Processed in four trays (inclusive an acid stop bath) Enlarged by a Durst double condensor system with a six elements Rodenstock or a Schneider lens. In a dark room with white walls plus running hot and cold water.
Jaco van Lth Rotterdam
@@jacovanlith5082 That Mamiya systematically introduced improved versions of its lenses for its TLR system (and its 645 system as well) is a matter of record. It's a common practice. Pentax did the same thing a couple of times over the life of their 67 medium format system. Bronica did it as well, basically replacing its enter lens lines for 6x6 and 645 systems,. renaming the new lenses to distinguish them from the old. As for the merger performance of the YashicaMat, I personally took the time to test the lenses on a half dozen 6x6 format TLRs using the Air Force test targets which were the resolution standard at the time. The Autocord proved the best by a modest margin over the Rolleicord and Zeiss TLRs. The Ricoh Diacord was an insignificantly lesser result. The YashicaMat 124G was a distant last of the bunch. At wider apertures, it yields about half the resolution of the others, and at best aperture only about 70% thereof. So, yes, I have a significant experience to support my opinion. All of these cameras mounts 4 element Tessar, or Tessar copy lenses. The Lubitel uses (I think?) a three element lens, less corrected and giving clearly inferior results. The Flexaret has a very good reputation, but I have no personal knowledge of it or the other cameras you mentioned. Your comment misses my point, which (to repeat, was not that the Yashica Mat TLRS (basically all the same after 1960) is a terrible camera and useless, but that its used prices over the last few years are ridiculous when compared to many other cameras which cost the same or much less, yield a much better optical result, and are more solidly designed and built..